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Vol. XLII Lititz. Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, February 1, 1940
• I Ä . J. No. 20
Politically
* *
"Short of War"
Japs Whipped
Finland Spurned
From all outward indications.
Pennsylvania Republicans are fac-ing
the Presidential year with a
united front and less prospect of
a real fight than at any time
since the pre-Pinchot days. There
are a few rough spots, to be sure,
but when time comes to name the
delegates, you can bet your bot-tom
dollar that any contests will
be inconsequential ones. The
keystone Republicans are deter-mine<
l to lead the march toward
a return of a Republican working
majority :o Washington.
* » *
F. D. R. has no intention of eli-minating
himself as a possible
presidential candidate as long as
there are so many state delega-tions
still to be corralled. One
does not have to be even close to
Washington sources these days to
realize that the President is keep-ing
a strong lead in the business
of gathering in delegates.
The President, in fact, is the
most active of his party, even in-cluding
Farley and Garner. The
President's present strategy ap-pears
to go into the convention
with a majority of delegates. He
probably won't run, himself, ae we
predicted two weeks ago, but he
certainly would love to throw
those votes behind Cordell Hull
at the erucial moment—those mo-ments
he loves so dearly.
* » »
On the Republican side, Dewey
clings to the post position, with
Taft overcoming Dewey's popular-ity
by systematically working up
a sizable list of delegates. And
with the professionals liking Van-denberg,
the choice in June will
probably rest on the head of one
whose name is not mentioned
above.
Name Patrons
For Dance
Boro Adopts
Economy
Budget Here
Douple Announces Ap-pointment
of Com-mittees
For 1940
That the borough will go
through the year 1940 without a
tax increase and with a surplus
->f nearly $2,000 in addition was
Indicated Tuesday evening when
fhe proposed budget calling for
expenditures of $20,939.69 was
unanimously passed on first read-ing.
Explaining various parts of the
proposed budget of revenues and
expenditures, Borough Secretary
Elam E. Habecker indicated that
expenditures this year will be
materially reduced by the fact
that no major project» such as the j
laying of the storm sewer system
: are being contemplated.
He reported a cash balance of
$917. Estimated revenues were as
follows: Miscellaneous sources,
$9,180; taxes from previous years,
$1,150; current levy, $11,524.06.
Estimated expenditures are as
follows: General government,
$1,578.99; protection to persons
and property, $2,983; health and
sanitation, $200; highways, $14,-
749; library and recreation, $240.-
40; miscellaneous, $1,138.30; total,
$20,889.69.
Water Fund receipts are esti-mated
at $17,064 as compared with
the estimated expenditure of
$9,899 which would mean an op-erating
profit to the borough of
$7,165.
President of Council A. L. Dou-ple
named the following borough
committees:
¡Street: Douple, Bomberger,
Steffy.
Ordnance: Calvert, Steffy, Enck.
Fire: Steffy, Calvert, Enck.
Light: Bomberger, Calvert, Enck.
Building and ¡Purchasing: Enck,
Bomberger, Steffy.
Finance: Douple, Enck, Bom-berger.
Police: Bomberger, Steffy, Enck.
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Juniata Choir
Will Sing Here
On Sunday
The Juniata College Acappella
Choir will render a music program
in the Lititz Church of the Breth-ren
on Sunday afternoon at 2:30.
The Choir is made up of thirty
trained singers, sixteen women
and fourteen men, and is directed
by Charles L. Rowland, ¡Professor
of Music in Juniata College, Hunt-ingdon,
Pa.
Two years ago the Choir was
here, rendering a program in the
church, and aleo one in the high
school auditorium. Their music
is always appreciated.
115 Members
Join Fire Co.
At Smoker
Program
Announced
For Concert
Lititz High School students con-tributed
a total of $22.91 toward
the infantile paralysis drive con-ducted
here during the past week,
members of the local committee
announced today.
The committee at the same time
announced the following partial
list of patrons for the birthday
dance to be held in the Moose
Hall, Lancaster, Friday evening.
Dr. C. R ¡Lane
Mr. & Mrs. Edwin W. Bear
Mr. A Mrs. Charles J. Kneipp
Mr. & Mrs. John Keehn
Mr. Arthur C. Badorf
Mr. Paul M. Seaber
Mr. Herbert R. Weitzel
Mr. ¡Paul P. Bushong
Mr. Amos W. Yerger
Mr. Harry D. Hacker
Charles W. Duseinger
Mr. Morris C. McCloud
Mr. Harry H. Sesseman
Mr. Chester A. Witmyer
New Potato Disease
Threatens Pa. Crop
Basterial ring rot is a new po-tato
disease against which Penn-sylvania
potato growers are warn-ed
by Dr. O. D. Burke, assistant
extension plant pathologist with
the Pennsylvania State College.
Farmers frequently refer to the
disease as bacterial wilt.
He explains that the disease is
the biggest problem potato grow-ers
have had to face in a half
century. In cutting the seed pota-toes
for planting, the bacteria
which cause the dsease are car-ried
from a diseased tuber on the
cutting knife to other tubers. In
the field, the disease spreads from
plant to plant.
Dr. Burke emphasizes the im-portance
of buying clean seed
since this is the only known meth-od
for the control of the disease.
Three High School Bands
To Attract Large
Audience Feb. 8
The three band concerts to be
presented by the senior band of
the local high school, the 'Man-heim
borough high school and the
Manheim Township high school on
Thursday, January 8 at eight
o'clock in the local high school
auditorium, will present the fol-lowing
program.
Group one will be directed by
George P. Landry, supervisor of
music in Manheim Township, and
they play the following numbers,
"Old Glory March", Robert Smith;
".Rosamund", Schubert, arranged
by F. L. Buchtel; "Skaters Waltz'',
E. Waldtenfel; "Ase's Death"
Grieg; "The Black Prince" over-ture,
M. Beaulack.
Group two will be directed by
John H. Enck, supervisor of mu-sic
in Manheim borough and will
present the following numbers,
"Sons of America" march, May-hem
Lake; ''Beauties of Erin"
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More Than 300 Members
Enjoy Smoker and
Turkey Supper
A total of 115. new members
were admitted to the Lititz Fire
Company last evening as a fea-ture
of the annual smoker and
turkey dinner which was attended
by more than 300 firemen, includ-ing
a number of visitors from
various parts of the county.
'During the evening firemen list-ened
to a series of short addresses
several of which were along a
lighter vein. Approximately 50
door prizes including valuable
merchandise donated iby local
merchants and businessmen were
awarded to holders of lucky num-ber
cards during the program.
Speakers included Burgess Vic-tor
Wagner, Newton W. Buch, C.
S. Deckert, Lititz High School
coach; Menno Rohrer, Fire Chief
Emory Wagner, who was installed
for the twentieth consecutive year
last month; Harry Miller, Lancas-ter
Fire Chief; Elmer Reist,
Schaefferstown; Ben Murr, official
of the county firemen's associa-tion;
Fire Marshall Stauffer, of
Palmyra; Silas Bard, veteran edi-tor
of Denver and father of Judge
Bard; Harry Way, president of the
Lititz Fire Company; and Chand-ler
Hagey, Eden, formerly of
Lttz.
Following the program, firemen
went to the first floor where t' < y
were served a turkey supper by
members of the auxiliary who
were using the new fire house kit-chen
for the first time.
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Staff Selected
For Linden Leaves
Staff members for Lindefl
Leaves, the Linden Hall Academy
and Junior College year-book,
were announced on Tuesday. Bach
class is represented in every
office.
Editors-in-chief, J. C., Barbara
Pipes, Academy, Jane Stark; As-sistant
editors, Katfrryn McNamee
and Mary Lou Livingood; literary
editors, Peggy Snyder and Betty
Evans; business managers, Mar-jorie
Groh and Mary Ann Swan-ger;
assistant business managers,
Joyce Greenstein -and Mary Jane
Wills.
Art editors, Frances ¡Severson,
Jean MoDermott, and Ann Price;
class poets, Maryemma Kunze,
Ruth Carpenter, Kitty Mitchell;
class prophets, Marian Tyler and
Susan Gabriel; class historians,
Gretchen Baldwin and Muryelle
Kemper; athletic editors, Jean
Phares and Georgia Wurtz.
CLAIMS DRINK OF WATER
WON BASKETBALL GAME
A drink of water was largely
responsible in Lititz' winning
last Friday's basketball game,
in the opinion of Dr. Howard
B. Minnich, this borough. And
this is how he figures it out:
"At one time in the game
Lititz was ahead by seven
points when the visitors called
time out," Dr. Minnich explain-ed.
"The Lititz squad as a
whole walked off the floor and
each man got a drink of water.
When play was resumed the
Lititz team had slowed up so
much that the visitors soon
overtook them.
"Then later in the evening
before the extra period, the
visitors, as a team, went and
got a drink of water with the
result that the Lititz boys
thereafter completely outplayed
them," Dr. Minnich concluded.
New Fire Company Kitchen
One Of Finest In County
After several weeks during
which firemen with hammers and
paint brushes worked evening af-ter
evening, the kitchen of the
Lititz Fire Company has been
completely remodeled and enlarg-ed
as one of the finest kitchens of
its kind in the county.
Following a color scheme of
cream and red, the kitchen i3 re-garded
as one of the most beauti-ful
ever seen here. The new
stove and ovens were used for the
first time this week when firemen
served a turkey dinner as an after-math
of their annual smoker.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the
Fire Company will hold "Open
House" at the kitchen in the fire
house on Wednesday evening, Feb-ruary
7.
The entire kitchen has been
painted and enameled, new cuo-boards
installed, a cabinet sink
with two compartments and drain-boards,
a sixteen burner gas stove
with two large ovens and a venti-lating
system which will changc
the air in two minutes time. A
semi indirect lighting system
which will not cause a shadow
anywhere in the room. The flojr
and sink are covered with lino-leum
and several plugs -ire placed
to accomodate electrical fixtures.
The committee of the firemen in
charge of the work included,
Christ Koehler, Walter George,
Lloyd Hoffman, and Ralph Walt-ers.
Many of the men worked
gratuitously during their spare
time among them were, Wililam
Eshleman, Emory Wagner, Mr.
Koehler, Arthur Reist, Preston
Helman, Elmer Bomberger, Mr.
George, Mr. Walters and George
Weigand.
Firemen Face
Risk In Fire
At Drug Store
Were Endangered By
Chemicals Stored In
Basement of Stdfe
Lititz firemen braved the chance
of an explosion from chemicals
stored in the basement of the
Curtis Hensel drug store here
early Tuesday morning when they
succeeded in extinguishing a
stubborn blaze before it could
spread to other structures.
Upon'their arrival at the ¡burn-ing
building, firemen were warned
that the chemicals might explode
at any moment and immediately
donned gas masks to protect them
from chemical fumes.
The fire which burned through
Ooth floors in the building caused
a loss estimated at more than
$3,>500, partially covered by insur-ance.
The structure is owned
Dr. W. S. Regar, of Ephrata.
According to Fire Chief Emory
Wagner, the fire started at or
near an oil burner in the base-ment.
Awakened by the smoke at
5.10 A. M., Hensel, who was suf-fering
from a bronchial illness;
Mrs. Hensel and their daughter,
Agnes, fled from the building in
their nightclothes.
Firemen, accordingly, played a
two and one-half inch stream of
water into the basement from the
entrance upstairs, causing heavy
smoke and fumes but avoiding any
explosions. Some stock in the
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RECEIVES ORANGE SHIPMENT
W. M. Kissinger, of this borough,
this week received a box of fine
seedless California oranges sent
him by Roy Winfield Wilson, of
Los Angeles, California, a former
resident of Lititz.
—Home-made Sausage, 25c lb.;
Beefsteak, 30c lb.; Hamburg, 19c
Ib.; Frankfurts, 25c lb.; Whole
Chucks, 19c and 20c lb.; Home-made
pudding 20c. LUTZ—Phone
»93-R. We Deliver. adv.
When the Boy Scouts of America celebrates its 30th birthday on
Thursday, February 8, all of the 1.330,000 Scouts, Cubs and Scout
leaders will re-dedicate themselves to the service motive which has
characterized the Movement for three decades. Scouting offers ad-venture,
fun and achievement—attractive to all boys—through the
democratic life of the Scout Troop and Patrol, as essential ingredi-ents
in its character-influencing program for the boys of America.
Drawing on the rich experience of the Movement, local and national
Scout leaders anticipate the opportunity to serve more boys annually.
Boro Mourns
Death Of
Nathan Reist
Funeral Services To
Held Saturday
Afternoon
Be
"Dad" Refet is dead.
Loved by httadreds of boys t<J
whom he sllways w&9 a friend and
sympathetic advisor, his death
here Tuesday afternoon left a note
of sadness wltfeh long Will be felt
throughout this comirriinity.
To all here, Nathan E. Reist
was affectionately known as Dad,
and although he had not been as
active in the past several years,
he was well-known to every boy
and girl in Lititz. His death fol-lowed
an illness of seven weeks
duration and death was d ie to a
complication of diseases and the
infirmities of his age.
Funeral services will be held at
Spacht's Funeral Home here Sat-urday
at 2 P. M. with interment to
be made in Kauffman's cemetery
near Manheim. Friends may call
at Spacht's Friday from 7 to 9
P. M.
For more' than forty years Mr.
Reist was a teacher in the rural
schools in this vicinity, but he
was best known for his work
among boys, who flocked to his
home to borrow his books, look
over his collections of relics and
botanical specimens, and learn the
rich lore of natural history which
he was forever accumulating and
passing on. He often took groups
of boys on camping trips.
I t was said "Dad" Reist ran the
first circulating library in Lititz.
He had some 7,000 books on his
shelves, and he loaned them out
to the boys at one cent a book.
When the Lititz Public Library
was established, he was made an
honorary trustee for life.
Mr. Reist was never married,
and lived alone, but his two nieces
and three nephews and some of
his boy proteges saw to it that he
was never "alone" for very long,
and that he lacked for nothing.
Canning Co.
Signs Lease
For Factory
Will Employ 200 Persons
Here During TV
mato Season
A new tomato canning company
was added to Lititz' industries
Wednesday Wh6ii a lease was
signed here for the large factory
formerly occupied by the Crane
Furniture Company.
The lease was signed toy George
Stanley, head of the Mount Ver-non
Canning Company, now locat-ed
in Indiana. According to Mr.
Stanley, the equipmet will be
shipped here during the coming
month.
The new plant will be ready for
operation at the start of the to-mato
season in June and will
offer employment for a total of
200 persons, including a number
of women.
Coming to Lititz Wednesday af-ternoon,
Mr. Stanley reached an
agreement for the renting of the
property with Daniel Withers,
present owner of the Water Street
v.Coaiinjed on Page
Jobs Drive
Gets Results
In First Week
J. D. Bomberger Named
Local Chairmen In
Campaign To End
Unemployment
The Jobs Mobilization Campaign
which was launched here this
week in conjunction with a similar
drive throughout the state already
has borne results and jobs have
been procured for all local per-i
sons who were on relief, it was
revealed this morning.
In announcing the drive in this
section, George B. Blaisdell,
chairman of the Lancaster County
committee, placed Guy D.. Bomber-ger,
of this borough, in charge of
the lofcal survey and revrealed the
appointment of the following
committee to assist him: Benjamin
M. Leaman, Albert Pierison, Paul
A. Doster and Charles K. Keath.
all of this borough.
The local committee -will con-duct
its campaign throughout Lit-itz,
Warwick and Elizabeth town-ships.
In this section, according
to a preliminary report at the
start of the drive there were re-ported
a total of 85 persons un-employed
and a total of eight per-sons
who were not only unem-ployed
but who were on relief.
"We have been fortunate in be-ing
able to locate jobs for those
who are on relief in the few days
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'IN FILDELFII
SPARE THE TAXPAYERS
I n these days when Democrats
are prone to criticize Pennsyl-vania's
Republican State adminis-tration
for having maintained
emergency taxes, propostals of the
Democratic administration of New
York by Governor Léhmian are in-teresting.
Lehman rescommeucU
$15,000,000 in new ^"xes for the
relief of bi» administration. The
policy "in Pennsylvania is: Cut to
the bone and spare tine taxpay-ers.
A'pore wucha fer de Grish-Daws
hut en yung weibshmench doh.
fum shteddle en odder grickt fun
eram Boss dos se nuch Fildelfi
gae mus fer nei Coats und frocks
tsu kawfa fer ehn. Des hut so
ordlich gude g'suit, se hut ga-maent
des daed era en gudi chance
gevva fer de gross shtod Fildelfl
tsu saena und awe a'mohl en ride
nemma uf'ra riggelwaeg care.
Well der dawg ise endlich coo-ma
dos se gae hut missa, und so
wore so arrig im'a shpludder dos
se nuch sheer gore de Care fer-faelt
hut und da'noh het se denk
daart nunner lawfa missa udder
uf en fleeg shif nunner fleega, sell
hut se g'sawt waart yusht tsu
shlim ga'west, se sawgt dos se
evva net gleicht shtarrig fawra
und noh mocht's nix ous eb es uf
em grund iss udder in de luft. Se
sawga mer dos se het en wunner
bori tseidt g'hot mit sellem Rig-gel-
Waeg mon, se hut ehm a'pore
mohl g'sawt dos ehr net so shtar-rig
fawra set, se hut ga'maent dos
se daeda nuch Fildelfi cooma und
braichta net so rawsich fawra,
ovver der Riggel-Waeg mon hut
g'sawt- dos se nuch Fildelfi cooma
mista uf tseidt udder ehr daed si
Job ferleera, yar well hut se
g'sawt fer'wos won der so arrig
uf tseidt si mist fer'wos si der net
freerer g'shtaert den morriga?
Noh hut der Riggel-Waeg mon
g'sawt du husht y ^ care sheer
fer'faelt dos se wore we
waarts der gonga won meer nuch
freerer g'shtaert hedda.
Se sin endlich nuch'da grossa
Shtod cooma und olles iss recht
gude ob. gonga fer de Fraw,
waescht era Boss hut era so'n
ba'beer gevva dos mer en map
haest mit oil de shtrosss*. ob'ea-marrigt
und en
blot»
¡groe» —
- sreitz om
wu dehr Shtore wore dos se
he gae hut sella fer de neia glae-ier
tsu kawfa. Se hut net Feel
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Will Observe
66th Anniversary
The Men's Missionary Society of
the Moravian Church will cele-brate
their sixty-sixth anniversary
on Sunday, February 4tlh.
The Rev. A. O. Danneberger will
be the guest speaker. Mr. and
Mrs. Danneberger are stationed at
Bluefields, Nicaragua and are
home on furlough, the ylhave serv-ed
over thirty years at this sta-tion.
Mrs. Danneberger wae born in
England and last summer they
visited England, returning in No-vember.
Mr. Danneberjger deliv-ered
the sermon at the Mission
Festival of the Central Moravian
Churches held in the local church
in June, their daughter, Miss Mar-garet
Danneberger is ai frequent
visitor in town.
Victory Friday Night Means
Championship For Lititz
—Turkey Supper at Rothsville,
Lutheran Social Hall, Saturday,
Feb. 3, auspices Ladies Aid Soci-ety.
Everybody invited.
By GUY BOMBERGER
Whether or not the 1939 Lititz
High basketball team can uphold
the reputation of former teams
will be determined this Friday
night when the Red and Black
journeys to West Lampeter to
play the school of that town. The
J-V game is scheduled to start at
7:15.
At the present time West Lam-peter
holds an undisputable grip
on the first place position in Sec-tion
No. 2 league with only one
setback. Lititz occupies second
place with two losses. A Red and
Black victory tomorrow night will
send the locals into a tie wjth
West Lampeter for first place.
A large Lititz following is ex-pected
to attend the crucial tilt,
since the West Lampeter boys
have already inflicted a defeat on
the Red and Black.
Last Friday night approximats'y
1000 spectators, the largest Lititz
basketball crowd for quite some
time, witnessed one of the most
breath-taking games ever played
on a local floor, when a smooth-playing
Lititz team downed Eph-rata
High, 47-41.
The score at the end of the reg-ular
playing time was 41-41, but
a timekeepers' dispute sent the
game into a three-minute extra
period. In those last tliree min-utes,
Lititz scored six points, hold-ing
Ephrata scoreless.
With three seconds of game
time left and the score 41-41, Rob-ert
Baehman, Lititz, was fouled.
Just before the Lititz guard was
set to attempt to give the locals
a one point victory, a difference
in timekeepers' clocks was noted.
After a fifteen minute interval the
referee ruled an extra period
nceseary, stating the foull commit- ,
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Inspect New
Home Econom-ics
Dept. —
Mrs. Helen Swank, supervisor of
Home Economics in Lebanon and
Lancaster counties, visited the lo-cal
high school on Monday ac-companied
by three student teach-ers
from Penn State, Temple Uni-versity
and Drexel Institute.
Miss Thelma Savage from Penn
State, will arrive at the local high
school next Tuesday to observe
the work in the Home Economics
department and do practise teach-ing
supervised by Miss Margaret
Hower. She will remain six
weeks.
The department has recently
moved into the newly renovated
quarters. Both the cooking and
clothing units rooms have been
painted, redecorated and the floors
refinished.
The new addition to the depart-ment,
a dining and living room,
formerly occupied by E. S. Deck-ert,
has been painted a light green
and materials are at hand for the
girls to make curtains, covers for
the upholstered furniture, drawn
rugs, etc. They are also refinish-ing
the dining room furniture.
P. 0. Grounds To
Be Beautified
Lititz' new post office grounds
should be one of the most beauti-ful
in the borough, according to
specifications mailed this week to
local nurseries and landscape
gardeners by Postmaster Robert
Pfautz. Bids for the landscape
work will be opened at the local
postoffice Wednesday, February 4,
at noon.
Among trees and shrubbery to
be planted will be included a to-tal
of 10 sugar maple trees; 27
lilac bushes; eight Japanese yews;
217 Regel Privet bushes and 214
Amur Privet bushes.